Subscribe to comments posted in a page

[danirus]

Following on from this conversation in django-comments-xtd, a new feature is proposed to allow users to get notified on new comments posted on a page without having to post a comment themselves.

The implementation could consist of (this is a possible way to do it) writing a new model, say ObjectSubscription, with a content_type and object_pk fields and a ManyToMany point to ObjectSubscriber representing either a registered user or an external (verified) email address.

Then a function could be listening for the signal comment_was_posted and sending a notification to all the ObjectSubscribers whose ObjectSubscription (content_type and object_pk) was the subject of a new comment. More details can be found in the aforementioned conversation in django-comments-xtd.

[jdbit]

Hi,
What if I left a comment and I don't want to get notifications about other comments on the page (not related to my comment), but I would like to get notifications about replies to my comments. I would make a subscription on comments replies automatic (no checkbox in the comment form needed), but instead add a link to the email notification template with ability to unsubscribe. Maybe we can use the same ObjectSubscription model for subscriptions on comment replies too. I hope there will be at least a posibilit to implement this via signals.